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City of Acworth modernizes government operations with Laserfiche automation and AI
City of Acworth staff spent excessive time on manual data entry, document routing, and searching for records scattered across filing rooms, USB drives, and multiple digital systems, causing delays for employees and residents.
How it works
Common implementation structure
How this type of workflow is generally built, generalized across documented cases — not tied to any one vendor's stack. Click any stage to read what happens there. Specific products that implement these stages appear in “Tools commonly seen” below.
Stage 1 · Automated invoice submission
The city developed an automated invoice submission process using Laserfiche Forms and Smart Fields.
Tools used
LaserficheLaserfiche FormsSmart FieldsAI-powered Document Summarization
Outcome
Laserfiche automation and AI tools saved the finance team five to 10 minutes per invoice, cut meeting summary preparation from about four hours to five to ten minutes (saving roughly a month of staff time per year), and drove a 33% increase in invoice process adoption and a 27% increase in check request workflow adoption.
Results
Time savedfive to 10 minutes per invoice
Volumemore than 8,900
Cost replacedtens of thousands of dollars
Grounding & classification
Source type: vendor customer story
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